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WASSILY KANDINSKY Kleine Welten IV.
Color lithograph, 1922. 280x232 mm; 11x9 1/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 200. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin. From the same-title portfolio. A very good impression with strong colors.
Provenance: Gifted by I. B. Neumann, Neumann Gallery, New York, to artist and printmaker Earl Horter, Philadelphia; thence to his wife, artist Helen Lloyd; thence by descent to current owner, private collection, Massachusetts.
Earl Horter (1880-1940) was an accomplished artist who amassed a renowned art collection which provided artists in his circle with inspiration from European Modernist, Surrealist, African, and Native American art. His collection also included American artists whom he knew personally, including Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), Charles DeMuth (1883-1935), Arthur B. Carles (1882-1952), his wife Helen Lloyd (1903-1981), and Leon Kelly (1901-1982), the latter two were married in 1941. Roethel 167.
